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How To Make A Crane PDF
How To Make A Crane PDF
How To Make A Crane PDF
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1. Start with a square piece 7. Reestablish creases. Now think
of paper wish on one side, of your paper as having four smaller
blank on the other side. diamonds within the one bigger
diamond. Place your thumbs on
top of point C diamond. Place D B
DB
your index fingers on the other
side of the paper under the middle
crease in point B diamond and the
2. Lay the paper down flat in front middle crease in point D diamond, C
of you wish side facing down. guiding both points down to meet
Take the bottom right corner and A
point C then crease sides. Now
fold the paper diagonally to form collapse point A down onto points
a triangle. Unfold the paper. B, D, and C, resulting in a small,
DB
compact diamond.
DB
4. Fold the paper in half,
C
bringing the bottom half of
the paper up to meet the top
half. Unfold the paper. E
9. Take the right top layer of your
diamond (point F) and fold it
inward, so that the right side
H F
5. Fold the paper in half the other now lies next to the crease in the J I
way, bringing the right side of middle. Take the left top layer of
the paper over the left side of the your diamond (point H) and fold
G
paper. Unfold the paper again, it inward as well, making sure
but do not flatten it. that the left side is now adjacent E
to the right side. Points F and
H should be touching in the H F
center of your diamond.
J I
G
How to make an origami crane. (contd.)
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11. Take the top corner of your kite G G G
17. Take the right leg and fold it up
(point E) and fold it down and back all the way on an outward diagonal.
up, creating a crease where points I J
Unfold it and return it to its original
I and J meet. Turn your kite over position. Do the same to the left leg.
and crease the other way.
12. E
folded in steps 9-11 and grab the 18. Turn your crane so that you are G G G
bottom corner (point G), but ONLY looking at it from the side (it should G
the top layer of paper. Pull the corner
I J
upward and crease so that the crease the crease you made in step 17, fold
you made in step 11 is reestablished G the leg up as far as it can fold. Turn
it will look like an open birds beak. your paper over and do the same
to the other leg. Now close the leg,
G G bringing points O and P together.
13. Holding your bird beak wide Do the same to the other side.
open, and using the creases you
G G G
just made in steps 9-12, fold the
right and left sides of the beak
I J
inward and crease. Push the beak I J
O P
backwards and crease so that it now
fold it inward as well, so that points top. Push the top of the neck down
K and L are touching in the center so the crease folds the opposite
of your kite. way. Pinch the paper together so
that you make a crease where the
head meets the neck.